 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 520 pages
...though a far truer one than Pope's epigrams, or Cowper's cumbersome most anti-Homeric Miltonism. For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, — as Homer might...lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In short, it is an exquisite poem, in spite of its frequent and perverse quaintnesses and harshnesses,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1907 - 484 pages
...our countrymen of that period. This is a hasty suggestion, the more hasty because I want my supper. I have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read it ? it has the continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, more than any ; and xi. o in... | |
 | 1911 - 704 pages
...though a far truer one than Pope's epigrams or Cowper's cumbersome, most anti-Homeric Miltonism. For Chapman writes and feels as a poet — as Homer might...lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. POPE'S ASTONISHING EARNINGS Chapman's one serious rival in popularity measured both by time and space... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 624 pages
...our countrymen of that period. This is a hasty suggestion, the more hasty because I want my Supper. I have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read it ? — it has most the continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, of any, and in the uncommon... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1923 - 144 pages
...grudging of his acknowledged excellence. Notes, etc., to Extracts from the Garrick Plays. 1827. CHAPMAN I have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read it? it has the continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, more than any; and in the uncommon... | |
 | Homer, George Chapman - 1998 - 650 pages
...calling across the centuries to a Greek. Coleridge is fully justified in declaring that Chapman writes "as Homer might have written had he lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth"; equally justified is a recent critic, Douglas Bush, when he says that if Homer could return from Elysium... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...though a far truer one than Pope's epigrams, or Cowper's cumbersome most anti-Homeric Miltonism. For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, — as Homer might...have written had he lived in England in the reign of Glueen Elizabeth. In short, it is an exquisite poem, in spite of its frequent and perverse quaintnesses... | |
 | Robert Louis Fowler - 2004 - 448 pages
...than from Pope's Epigrams or Cowper's cumbersome most .mt1-homeric MiItonudfor Chapman writes &; feels a Poet - as Homer might have written had he lived in England in the reign of Queen Eli1abeth. :i This is an exceptinnal tribute to the poetic powers of a great translation. With one... | |
 | Homer - 2008 - 244 pages
...from Pope's Epigrams or Cowper's cumbersome most anti-homeric Miltoniad — for Chapman writes & feels a Poet — as Homer might have written had he lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.'"-'- Matthew Arnold echoed these sentiments midcentury: "Chapman's style is not artificial and literary... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 140 pages
...grudging of his acknowledged excellence. Notes, etc., to Extracts from the Garrick Plays. 1827. CHAPMAN I have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read it? it has the continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, more than any; and in the uncommon... | |
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For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, - as Homer might have written had he lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
